Luis Posada Carriles

Luis Posada Carriles (15 February 1928-) was a Second Lieutenant of the Cuban Army who defected to the United States and was behind the Cubana Flight 455 bombing and 1997 Cuba hotel bombings.

Biography
Luis Posada Carriles was born on 15 February 1928 in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and joined Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution. However, he had misgivings about the revolution and fled to the United States, becoming a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent and coordinating actions by Cuban exiles against Castro's government. From 1968 to 1985, he coordinated terrorist attacks against Cuba from Venezuela, and in 1976 he ended his relations with the CIA. The 1976 Cubana Flight 455 bombing and the 1997 Cuba hotel bombings were his works, and with Orlando Bosch he cofounded the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations (CORU), which carried out anti-Castro attacks. In 1985 he helped the CIA in funding the Contras in Nicaragua, and he later moved to Miami, Florida, becoming known as "the godfather of Cuban exile violence" but also a hero in the anti-Castro exile community.